Pigmentry
The database of artist paints and the pigments inside them.
Pigmentry lets painters search almost 3,000 watercolours from 26 manufacturers by pigment, lightfastness, transparency and granulation – and find which paints are really the same pigment under a different name.
Highlights
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2,997 paints
26 manufacturers and 222 pigments, compiled from official colour charts.
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Instant filters
Pigment code, single-pigment, lightfastness, transparency, granulation – results update as you click.
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Computed swatches
Swatch colours derived from each paint’s pigment composition.
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German & English
Fully bilingual, with light and dark mode.
How it’s built
The site is a static Astro build with a single Preact island for the filterable browser, so pages load instantly and need no server logic. The data comes from a Django and PostgreSQL pipeline that imports the manufacturers’ charts. It runs in Docker behind Traefik, with privacy-friendly, self-hosted analytics.